CgTalk Daily Sketch 345 "Storyteller"

[LadyMedusa]

Is it OK if we submit an unfinished sketch, and maby make it a finished pice later?
I'm making one for this entry, but it seems like it'll take me quite long to finish it.

[Maidith]

"Ssh, Adelaide, have you already heard about it? No? Listen!"
-"What's up? Tell me, Martine!"
"The Dauphin is said to be not the King's son, but the son of the Queen's secret lover!"
- "O my gosh! How scandalous!"

http://img149.echo.cx/img149/9549/thegossip5te.jpg

Yay for the gossip! :D
Photoshop 7, 40 minutes.

[Miezis]

well, here's mine "contribution"! :)
photoshop 30min

http://ic1.deviantart.com/fs4/i/2005/136/e/8/storryteller_by_Miezis.jpg

first time post on this section of this forum! wish everyone a good doodling!

[TheCleaner]

first cgtalk sketch, i needed a lil break from working.. didnt time myself but its no more that 30 mins (must do work !!)

A lil story around the camp fire.. as you can tell, ive never been camping, haha.. (no ref)

http://img130.echo.cx/img130/8060/ds3452ce.jpg

[Loulu79]

Well, let me see what I can come up with...

[Daz]

http://www.dazpetty.com/art/1hr%20Storyteller.jpg

I dont really have the hang of drawing people yet, ohh well practice practice practice I spose

1hr - Photoshop 7.0 - Wacom Intuos 3 6x8

[augustus]

Dede Korkut. ½ hr. ArtRage/Wacom.

http://august.f2o.org/temp/dedekorkut.jpg

[wallasaurus]

took too long this one - 1h 40 min in photoshop cs


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v90/chrissdawaller/storyteller2.jpg

[daw]

just a quick one PS/wacom about 30min

- I swear by Poseidon, it was this big...;)
http://www.dplays.se/cgtalk/345.jpg

[Goro]

wallasaurus nice!

about 1h and a half (photoshop wacom)

http://www.area-56.de/pics/cgtalk/sketchgroup/ghoststories.jpg

[stepington]

Looks like goro beat me (quite exquisitly) to the cave painting punch. Oh well. . . :)
PS/IR wacom 180 minutes


http://img88.echo.cx/img88/7246/16uo.gif

[HellBoy]

ow my, Goro that is so good


heres mine
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/mwarsame/storytelling.jpg

PS + Mouse = 2h

[vivien82]

daw's made me smile!!:)

[AtmaWeapon]

Well guys, I haven't been around for quite awhile but I've been pretty busy. Becasue you know... :applause: I JUST GRADUATED!! Feels weird being a out of college... oh well next year is grad school! Here's my contribution to this thread

Nice one Goro! Always nice to to see what you do.
Daw that one is great
Maidith You always have such a soft feel

http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/beiy/images/sketchBook/storyteller.jpg

[mofo101]

I don’t know were I got this, I started drawing and, there ya have it... don’t ask me what its about... :)(first time posting here BTW)

Photoshop CS
Wacom Intuos 2 4X6
no references
20 minutes top

[Zeoyn]

Pirates and nymph stories
Photoshop - 3h

http://www.puraimagem.pt/ze/storyteller.jpg

[Loulu79]

Okay, I got carried away just then...(heehee:D )...3 hrs 15mins in Photoshop w/ only mouse.

Great Job everybody!:scream:

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y18/Loulu79/2Storyteller2copy.jpg

Since the question has been asked already...why not?:shrug:

[robinayles]

Goro, steppington, zeoyn and loulu79 - excellent work!

I was going to go with the Native American storyteller also, but I
just HAD to watch The Bachelor to see if he picked the cute one from McKinney, Texas - and he did! Both ladies were super sweet, but being a Texan, I had to root for Sara B. Its a big embarrasment and I hang my head in shame to admit that I got totally hooked on that stupid show!

[erilaz]

Please reprimand me if I don't contribute every day from now on! I keep skipping days, and that's not productive!:)

http://img226.echo.cx/img226/9885/storytell7ig.jpg

Very little time for lunch today. About 10 mins openCanvas.

[erilaz]

Double postarama. Curse you LAN lag! Curse yoooou!

Well, I'll use this post as a fine excuse to praise the exceptional work going on. Goro, you rock, as usual! Stepington, great little animation! Everyone else, superb things going on!

[Robertt]

http://img214.echo.cx/img214/1965/cgtalkdsg345brjt20054sy.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

PSE / wacom tablet / over an hour

RobertT

[embryotic]

Stepington - wow cool little animation - was that the day in history that crog magnon man was chased by the alien egg beater?......i forgot about that one

(ha ha) nice one ..

Goro - great lighting
Maidith - how scandalous? very method!, I like it
wallasaurus, zeoyn good stuff

[depleteD]

painter and ps
just over an hour
http://people.uleth.ca/~andrew.melnychukosee/dailySketch/storyteller.jpg

[stepington]

thanks all -

digital - embryo - hoo-har-ar! It was actaully the day someone put play-dough into a silly puddy egg - and tipped the balance of nature:scream:

[wildsheepchase]

http://www.rachelquinlan.com/images/dsgstorytellerweb.jpg

Great images everyone!:arteest:
Oops, forgot to mention: Photoshop/Painter app. 1 hour

[MattH]

http://moonlitbasement.com/other/cgtalk/storyteller_v01_small


When I used to sit cross legged in the dirt and listen to scary stories as a child, my mind would eventually drift away from the tale being told to me and I would become my own storyteller. I would slide into my own storied dreamland where I often became the same creature lurking in the woods that I was meant to be afraid of.

Photoshop, between 1 and 2 hours (kept having to answer my phone, damn outside world!)

Goro! No story-bot? I'm a bit dissapointed, but amazing work nonetheless.:thumbsup:

[FiYoG]

very humbled by the sketches today
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v169/fiyog/hgd-1.jpg
photoshop / 30min more or less

[element5]

Hiya guys and gals,

Great work peoples :thumbsup:

@Moonlit Matt ... very cool :applause:

heres my effort
30min/wacom/ps7

http://apache.airnet.com.au/~element5/storyteller-1.jpg

[daw]

So many good ones here Maidith, augustus, wallasaurus, Goro, Zeoyn
and Moonlit Matt - great skeches :thumbsup: :thumbsup: - to many hehe...
stepington really cool animation - good work everybody

vivien_drums and AtmaWeapon - thanks guys!

[MattH]

Great stuff guys! My favorites so far are the imaginative shadow puppetry from wildsheepchase (as always, great stuff), the Maideth's saucy gossip piece (hahah, was cracking me up for a while), and goro's wonderful lighting and beautiful moment. Keep the good stuff coming everyone!

[Her0d]

Experimenting with different styles continues...
Photoshop, 45min:
http://herod.webd.pl/dsg/storyteller.jpg

[cheesehound]

http://not-included.net/sketchdump/storyteller.jpg
Really didn't want to post this, but I figured I should get in the habit of doing this weekly, at the very least.

Terrific work all around, as usual. Stepington's animated cave painting is especially rad.

[Groady]

Scary Granddad. Painter, about 2 hours.

http://www.graphicscenes.com/storyteller.jpg

[Maidith]

some great stuff here!^^

Goro, I like yours very much! And Groady, your scary granddad is great :D

[hinoon]

Very Nice Groady. Has a good narative quality to it.

[RobertoOrtiz]

Is it OK if we submit an unfinished sketch, and maby make it a finished pice later?
I'm making one for this entry, but it seems like it'll take me quite long to finish it.

I have no Problem with that...

-R

[Spiritt]

Experimenting with different styles continues...
Photoshop, 45min:
http://herod.webd.pl/dsg/storyteller.jpg

Hey Herod,

How did you get that half-tone, grayscale effect?

[Her0d]

Hey Herod,

How did you get that half-tone, grayscale effect?
Ive got some halftone Photoshop patterns ive found on net some time ago, so I just filled the 'multiplied' layer above the sketch with it, masked it all, and erased the mask with the brush tool in places where I wanted the halftone pattern to show up. Then I smoothed (blur/levels) the layer's mask. Then - another layer, and the same process (about 4 tone layers here).

[LadyMedusa]

Mine:
http://www.home.no/medusa/storyteller.jpg
Photoshop CS + wacom tablet - Time: 4-5 (maby more) hours. I will go deeper in detail whit this.

What am I doing wrong :(. Am I even progressing at all?

[stepington]

madame medusa - What am I doing wrong

well, i'm not sure what you mean by "wrong" - it's got a consistent style to it - the expressions are great - i would maybe push the dark around the edges to exagerate their fear of the unknown a tad? -
all in all it has a nice feel to it - their faces have a great heart to them. I love the smallest boy.

[LadyMedusa]

madame medusa -

well, i'm not sure what you mean by "wrong" - it's got a consistent style to it - the expressions are great - i would maybe push the dark around the edges to exagerate their fear of the unknown a tad? -
all in all it has a nice feel to it - their faces have a great heart to them. I love the smallest boy.
Thank you, I guess :)
The smallest boy? you mean the one in green? Thank you :)

[jmBoekestein]

That's a really good one Lady Medusa!!! :D

I think that you could use a softshadowing because it seems like they're flatter than they should be because their bodyparts aren't casting shadows/occluding ambient light. It's a gradual transition towards the more covered parts like armpits. Don't forget to source the liight ;)

[SpeccySteve]

Very rough pencil then Painter

http://img274.echo.cx/img274/8182/storytellerscan5ud.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

[Grondhammar]

Wow, excellent thread! This one gave me lots of ideas but I had so little time yesterday... erilaz, I'm with you on contributing every day even if it's not the masterpiece I had hoped. Such good practice...

Super pieces everyone, some excellent composition going on. Maidith, how in the world do you get such smooth form in 40 minutes!? *goes green with envy*

[jmBoekestein]

Just felt like making something, initial idea was completely different. But I didn't want to complete the pose, got bored :(.
http://img281.echo.cx/img281/2193/angelsketch1zp.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

[darylart]

http://hem.bredband.net/splinepusher/speedpaintings/speed_4.jpg

photoshop, 2 hours

[Gord-MacDonald]

ps .5 hrs

Three story tellers...

http://cg2020.com/dailysketch/StoryTeller.jpg

[LittleFish]

First time poster, long time lurker, etc...

Photoshop CS, about an hour and a half -- wasn't feeling very inspired, oh well, but had free time, so I had to do something.

http://img279.echo.cx/img279/3914/dsg3457oa.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

[TheTon]

Very nice Splinepusher... Nice style.
Just can't help thinking though, the perspective on the book makes it look a bit too flat and it almost looks like the Dad has got half a childs head in a box... See what I mean? Unless of course it actually IS half a childs head in a box and the Dad is telling us the story of how he got it... In which case, nicely done...!

TheTon

[Nazirull]

Nice splinepusher! The Ton....where is yours?:bounce:

[Loulu79]

Very good stuff you guys! With so many works here...it is an obvious fact that storytelling has a BIG impact on us as artists.:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[ashakarc]

Just felt like making something, initial idea was completely different. But I didn't want to complete the pose, got bored :(.
http://img281.echo.cx/img281/2193/angelsketch1zp.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us/)
That is a very nice sketch jm, I see the pose is looking downward, with a story teller nod, I really like this. Looking forward to see it completed.

[crazy3dman]

Pencil - about 40 minutes give or take a few.
http://www.crazy3dman.com/daily_sketch/C3DM_dsg345.jpg

[Kalorlo]

http://www.kellyhouse.force9.co.uk/art/Storyteller.jpg

Photoshop, 2 hrs.

Telling the story of the universe.

[jmBoekestein]

That is a very nice sketch jm, I see the pose is looking downward, with a story teller nod, I really like this. Looking forward to see it completed.

Thx:D, I had wanted to have her hold some magic stuff up towards the heavens, but the perspective got me confused. Too dramatic maybe. I'll retry, probably, the idea is still sticking with me.

Some painting left, don't know if I have the time, ;), I'll give it a shot.

[darylart]

the ton: u're probably right, I was a little careless with the relations between objects. thanks for the feedback.

maranello55: thanks alot :)

[Loulu79]

Just for the sake of improving...somebody tell me what I can improve on? How to make mine stand out more? I'm most humble to accept any comments.

[darylart]

loulu79: a few tips on the road - right now its hard to know where the lighting comes from. there is no defined light source. if you imagine the light from a certain direction, and paint light to dark on for example, the tree, it will have more of a depth feel to it. and this applies to everything in the picture. show us where the light hits the pants of the boy, and where the shadows are etc. this also forces you to use more colors and making it look less flat. another thing could be to remove the outlines from the initial sketch. hope it helps some. /D

[Loulu79]

loulu79: a few tips on the road - right now its hard to know where the lighting comes from. there is no defined light source. if you imagine the light from a certain direction, and paint light to dark on for example, the tree, it will have more of a depth feel to it. and this applies to everything in the picture. show us where the light hits the pants of the boy, and where the shadows are etc. this also forces you to use more colors and making it look less flat. another thing could be to remove the outlines from the initial sketch. hope it helps some. /D

Thanks a lot. I truly appreciate that!:)

Oh btw: Robert, is it okay to redo the finished piece for the sake of improving?

Edit: Waitaminute: Somebody already asked that question...

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